Next Manager

[joeybside]

2 hours ago, Volpone said:

This is the man to lead us. Top should go all out to get him. He might not want to come but nothing to lose in trying. A real, authentic and passionate manager. Listen to him!
 

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If we’re going down the route of ex-Leicester. Get Bezza in from Quorn. Set Goughy, Jasper & Mason on Faes, JV & Coady and they’d soon run away quick. Problem solved 

[winteriscoming]

14 minutes ago, Happy Fox said:

 

I don't see any better options realistically we could get that could get us promoted at the first time of asking and b keep us in the premier league?

 

Is Rohl better? he may be in the future, but as of this moment, he's just a young manager with potential, and I don't think we can risk that type of appointment this time around.

The foreign options are better but we’ll never go down that route. Fischer, Quique Sanchez Flores and Priske would be better than Dyche. 

[Happy Fox]

5 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

The foreign options are better but we’ll never go down that route. Fischer, Quique Sanchez Flores and Priske would be better than Dyche. 

 

Flores would be decent.

[Claudio Fannieri]

Never fear everyone Martin cockshaw of X fame has said it will be Cifuentues from QPR 😂😂

[smudgerfox]

1 hour ago, dmayne7 said:

 Basically every manager has failed somewhere. 

Some of the managers who would have caused uproar had we appointed them in the past five years

 

Marco Silva 

Nuno Esprito Santo

Sean Dyche

Thomas Frank

Unai Emery 

 

[winteriscoming]

1 minute ago, smudgerfox said:

Some of the managers who would have caused uproar had we appointed them in the past five years

 

Marco Silva 

Nuno Esprito Santo

Sean Dyche

Thomas Frank

Unai Emery 

 

I would add Corberan to that list. Whose currently got Valencia out of the drop zone but wasn’t wanted by some of our fans last summer or our stupid owners. 

[Guest Bilo]

21 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Means absolutely nothing. It's just our idiot fans who don't know anything putting five pound bets on. 

 

Top still thinks we're going to turn in to Barcelona, he won't ever hire Dyche. I doubt we'd ever even consider him. 

 

It's such a small market that the amounts of money needed to affect it are tiny. A couple of hundred quid of £10s and £20s brings him down from 8/1 to 4/1, it gets noticed by other punters and those punters think there's more in it than just Sean from Enderby having a speculative fiver on it and tweeting about it. Hey presto, actual money gets lumped on and it's 1/2.

[AjcW]

If the Dyche/Rudkin link was going to make Dyche to Leicester a thing it would have happened already. 

[HankMarvin]

23 minutes ago, smudgerfox said:

Some of the managers who would have caused uproar had we appointed them in the past five years

 

Marco Silva 

Nuno Esprito Santo

Sean Dyche

Thomas Frank

Unai Emery 

 

Unai Emery? His stock has always been too good for us.

 

Edited 23 April 2025 by HankMarvin

[Guest Bilo]

5 minutes ago, AjcW said:

If the Dyche/Rudkin link was going to make Dyche to Leicester a thing it would have happened already. 

Or, more worryingly, Ruud is announced as gone with our cornflakes with Dyche In by lunchtime. 

[Stadt]

4 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

I don't want any of them either though

 

Tony ****ing Mowbray, is it 2003?

 

Like I said he wouldn't make my top 10 but time and time again they've appointed the easiest and laziest choice. Just once we've appointed a manager in a job under these - Rodgers. Every manager had previously worked in English football in some capacity.

 

We've appointed more former + current employees as managers than people in a job or from abroad. The people that appointed Cooper aren't going to land Kjetil Knutsen or somebody of his ilk all of a sudden. There've been hundreds of interesting, good names over the years touted on this board and the only left field choice the club has ever made is Maresca, on an agent's recommendation apparently (entirely believable).

 

I'm advocating for Dyche over the dross like Martin, GO'N, Mowbray not in general. My #1 in the summer was Corberan because he's genuinely the most pragmatic (not Cooper's sham pragmatism) in our sort of bracket. If we'd stayed up or gone down he's have been a good fit. He's smashing it at Valencia but we baulked at £4m compo just to spunk 5x that on Oliver William Skipp (born 16 September 2000).

 

[HankMarvin]

Didn’t Dyche say he liked to attend our games before the Everton job when he was out of work as he was localish

[dmayne7]

17 minutes ago, smudgerfox said:

Some of the managers who would have caused uproar had we appointed them in the past five years

 

Marco Silva 

Nuno Esprito Santo

Sean Dyche

Thomas Frank

Unai Emery 

 

Exactly. I think it's probably a modern football thing as to just how judgemental we all are of managers. Obviously there are some rotters that still get decent jobs but it's just so circumstantial in terms of the manager being the right fit at the right time.

[Aleksz]

2 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Didn’t Dyche say he liked to attend our games before the Everton job when he was out of work as he was localish

He hangs out the back of Forest and Nottingham itself a lot, goes their games for his own entertainment, weirdo. 
 

Probably more Forest than Cooper was which is enough to tip a lot of our lot over the edge

Edited 23 April 2025 by Aleksz

[stevostadium]

2 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

It's being widely reported, so there may be something in it. It sound like Leeds are looking at how the previous six promoted teams have fared in the PL and have decided they'll need to be ruthless in order to survive. Good for them if so.

Not posted on here for a while.

So, in your opinion are we still not getting a transfer embargo or points deduction next season????

Because in all honestly no manager worth his salt will come here if we are. you were adamant no punishments will come our way ???

 

Is this still the case???

[ClaphamFox]

5 minutes ago, stevostadium said:

Not posted on here for a while.

So, in your opinion are we still not getting a transfer embargo or points deduction next season????

Because in all honestly no manager worth his salt will come here if we are. you were adamant no punishments will come our way ???

 

Is this still the case???

Transfer embargo? Highly unlikely this summer but we may get one in January if our accounts for next season are looking ropey. 

Points deduction? Possibly. The EFL is no doubt trying to find a way to do it - it just depends on whether they find it. 

Edited 23 April 2025 by ClaphamFox

[smudgerfox]

39 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Unai Emery? His stock has always been too good for us.

 

Left Arsenal as a failure and nearly replaced by Brendan  - had we swapped managers at that time , I assure you there would have been uproar 

Edited 23 April 2025 by smudgerfox

[Blue ROI]

1 hour ago, smudgerfox said:

Some of the managers who would have caused uproar had we appointed them in the past five years

 

Marco Silva 

Nuno Esprito Santo

Sean Dyche

Thomas Frank

Unai Emery 

 

5 years ago yes but from August 2022 I'd say we were more open when Rodgers started torching us.

Edited 23 April 2025 by Blue ROI

[Ethan RL]

anyone know if this cifuentes stuff actually has legs to it? 

QPR fans seem to think so

[ceebeefox]

2 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

Our fans are among the most passive and undemanding in the country. That's part of our problem.

Our fans are the same as all clubs fans in the country, passionate when things are going well. We should have gone up. Last year so subdued crowds expected promotion. It starts on the pitch though.

[AjcW]

6 minutes ago, Ethan RL said:

anyone know if this cifuentes stuff actually has legs to it? 

QPR fans seem to think so

He’s had a fallout with Lee Hoos so that’s where it’s come from 

[CosbehFox]

6 minutes ago, Ethan RL said:

anyone know if this cifuentes stuff actually has legs to it? 

QPR fans seem to think so

He’s not happy at QPR that’s for certain. He’s been steady there without being superb 

[Guest Bilo]

51 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

Transfer embargo? Highly unlikely this summer but we may get one in January if our accounts for next season are looking ropey. 

Points deduction? Possibly. The EFL is no doubt trying to find a way to do it - it just depends on whether they find it. 

Do they even have grounds? The fact that we bounced between leagues is as problematic for the EFL as it was for the PL, surely.

[ClaphamFox]

Just now, Bilo said:

Do they even have grounds? The fact that we bounced between leagues is as problematic for the EFL as it was for the PL, surely.

Presumably that‘s what the ongoing arbitration process is trying to establish. I’d imagine we’ll find out fairly soon. 

[Tielemans63]

Don't claim to be ITK (I'm absolutely not) but, as I've mentioned before, I know Dyche is really keen on the job. Heard it directly from someone very, very close to him.